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Bank Systems & Technology November 6, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
2008 Data Breaches: 30 Million and Counting Roughly 30 million consumers have had sensitive personal data stolen in the 552 reported data breaches so far in 2008.  |
InternetNews October 20, 2009 |
Privacy Still Dogs Electronic Health Records New study highlights security shortcomings with the ways medical facilities are digitizing patients' records.  |
InternetNews June 25, 2010 |
Anthem Blue Cross Victim of Data Breach More than 230,000 Social Security numbers and medical records are accidentally exposed due to some sloppy programming.  |
InternetNews May 21, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Lost Hard Drive Contains Clinton White House Data Archives' data loss compromised an undetermined number of Social Security numbers of White House staff and visitors.  |
InternetNews August 5, 2010 |
Another Laptop Theft Exposes 21K Patients' Data Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is in the process of notifying more than 21,000 patients that a stolen laptop has exposed some of their most sensitive personal information.  |
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Security Lapses Aplenty Despite Growing Threats A study by Verizon Business's RISK team reveals some disconcerting shortcomings in companies' security.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2010 |
Most Data Breaches Perpetrated by Cyber Gangs Organized crime syndicates, many of them based or operated from outside the U.S., are overwhelmingly to blame for coordinated cyber attacks, according to a study by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service.  |
InternetNews January 7, 2011 |
ITRC Seeks Full Data Breach Disclosure With major data breaches on the rise, the Identity Theft Resource Center is urging the formation of a centralized, searchable repository for the public to keep track of what institutions have seen their information compromised.  |
InternetNews May 7, 2007 Roy Mark |
TSA Admits 100,000 Employee Records Missing The Transportation Security Administration is missing a hard drive containing some 100,000 current and former employee payroll records.  |
CIO January 2007 |
Data Breaches Cost You More Data breaches continue to become more expensive.  |
InternetNews September 17, 2010 |
Rice University Deals With New Data Breach A stolen device containing student and faculty data went missing, putting personal information including Social Security numbers and birth dates up for grabs.  |
InternetNews June 14, 2010 |
Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.  |
InternetNews December 13, 2010 |
Data Breach Exposes Wisconsin Students' Data The University of Wisconsin became the latest U.S. college to endure a major data breach this year, putting the personal information of 60,000-plus former students and staff members at risk.  |
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Feds Fight to Plug Security Holes Breaches and computer losses continue where they shouldn't.  |
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Cyrus Farivar |
Closing the Loopholes on Data Theft Millions have had personal data, including credit card numbers, stolen this year. Congress is seeking to pass a stricter, nationwide law.  |
InternetNews December 4, 2009 |
Laptop Thief Nabs Hospital Patient Data It's the latest incident in which a lost or missing laptop leads to criminals gaining access to sensitive data.  |
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Tim Gray |
Hackers Head to School in Droves Universities appear to be the new favorite target of hackers, as the University of Southern California becomes the latest to get hit.  |
InternetNews August 3, 2010 |
Health Care Orgs Endure Data Breach Epidemic Hospitals, medical centers and physicians' offices have been responsible for a disproportionately large number of data breaches so far this year, according to one security study.  |
InternetNews April 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
Security Group Calls on Congress Public confidence in e-commerce will erode if Congress does not step forward and pass a meaningful national data breach disclosure law this year, according to the Cyber Security Industry Alliance.  |
InternetNews May 7, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Virginia State Health Data Held Hostage for $10M The state of Virginia received a ransom note demanding cash for medical records and threatening to sell personal data on the criminal market.  |
InternetNews May 17, 2010 |
Data Breach Tags N.M. Medicaid Patients Nearly 10,000 participants in New Mexico's Medicaid program had their personal information compromised after a car with a laptop in the trunk was stolen in Chicago.  |
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Alex Goldman |
The Offline Vulnerability of Personal Data Organizations cannot substitute technology for common sense in the handling of personal information, warns a new report.  |
InternetNews April 21, 2011 Stuart J. Johnston |
Report: Data Breaches on the Decline. New report from Verizon shows a positive trend, but that doesn't mean that the battle is over.  |
InternetNews June 9, 2009 Alex Goldman |
T-Mobile Hacked? Although a blog reported yesterday that T-Mobile was hacked, all the hackers actually seemed to have was a list of T-Mobile server names.  |
Wall Street & Technology December 12, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
Data Breaches Costly For Financial Firms Data breaches are costly for any company, but according to a 2007 study, the average total cost for an incident is much higher in the financial sector.  |
Managed Care November 2006 Ed Silverman |
Loss of Protected Patient Information Real Danger for Health Care Plans There are plenty of ways that confidential data can escape managed care organizations, and the consequences can be major. Can you trust your employees?  |
InternetNews January 28, 2010 |
National Archives Breach Tags Ex-Clinton Staffers The National Archives and Records Administration is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that a hard drive storing their Social Security numbers and personal data has gone missing.  |
InternetNews July 12, 2010 |
Stolen Drive Puts AMR Employee Records at Risk American Airlines parent company is the latest public company dealing with a data breach that exposed nearly 80,000 employees' Social Security numbers and other personal information.  |
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Retiree Data Lost in Laptop Theft Laptops are stolen from Manhattan-based Towers Perrin offices. Retirees are being urged to monitor credit records.  |
InternetNews July 9, 2010 |
Hackers Raid University of Maine's Servers The social security numbers and other personal data of over 4,500 students were compromised in the attack.  |
InternetNews April 8, 2010 |
Unencrypted Patient Data Lost in Laptop Theft Once again, lost notebook PCs have exposed the data of thousands of health care patients.  |
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Hospitals Becoming Popular ID Theft Target 'Cancer patients are big money' for ID thieves, privacy expert warns.  |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Health Net Loses 1.5 Million Medical Records Another external hard drive goes missing, exposing the medical records and Social Security numbers of thousands of patients.  |
Chemistry World July 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
US government uncovers safety failings at nuclear lab Safety failings at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been described as 'unsatisfactory' by the US government.  |
InternetNews August 30, 2006 Clint Boulton |
AT&T to Offer Credit Checks After Data Hack AT&T will pay for credit monitoring services after 19,000 credit card numbers were stolen.  |
InternetNews March 29, 2005 Tim Gray |
Another University Suffers Security Breach UC Berkeley joins a growing list of schools losing vital student information to hackers.  |
Insurance & Technology February 6, 2008 Melanie Rodier |
Data Breaches Increasingly Costly, Especially in Financial Services As the number of data breaches reported annually continues to surge, the costs incurred by companies that report incidents also are increasing  |
Chemistry World February 15, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
Security of US Nuclear Research Facilities in Doubt Nuclear facilities at US universities and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come under fire from a US congressional watchdog for lax security and breaches of safety rules.  |
CFO May 15, 2012 David Rosenbaum |
Costs of Data Breaches Drop In March, the Ponemon Institute, an independent research center that examines privacy, data protection, and information-security policies, reported the first decline in at least seven years of both the organizational cost of data breaches and the cost per lost or stolen record.  |
Bank Systems & Technology November 20, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
Best Practices on Data Breaches The task of informing consumers of a breach falls on banks. How the institutions do that is key to how they will be perceived by their customers.  |
InternetNews June 8, 2010 |
Penn State Deals With Latest Data Breach Penn State University officials are warning more than 15,000 students that yet another preventable data breach has compromised their personal data.  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Hackers Who Stole U.S. Government Employee Data Reportedly Breached American Airlines According to Bloomberg, both the airline and travel reservation firm Sabre appear to have been the subject of recent breaches.  |
PC World December 2004 Anne Kandra |
Trusting Your Health History to the Web Digitized medical records can help save lives. But are they secure enough?  |
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 Cory Levine |
Data Privacy: Financial Institutions Try to Keep Data Breaches Down in 2007 Several big-name data breaches made 2006 an ugly year for the securities industry, and security and privacy professionals are hoping to bring the problem to a halt this year.  |
InternetNews June 30, 2006 Roy Mark |
FBI Recovers Stolen VA Laptop Veterans Administration Secretary James Nicholson said Thursday his agency's infamous stolen laptop containing the personal records of 26.5 million veterans has been recovered.  |
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
Less Data, More Security Will data minimization be the key to enhancing data security? Experts say it's a trend to watch.  |
CRM May 2015 Leonard Klie |
Data Security Should Be in Everyone's Job Description Protecting valuable customer information should begin in the contact center and end in the executive suite.  |
InternetNews September 13, 2010 |
CCNY Student Data Exposed in Laptop Heist Some 7,000-plus students attending the City College of New York are learning that some of their most sensitive personal information was exposed when a school laptop was stolen last month.  |
InternetNews July 10, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Calif. Heath Firms Claim 800+ Breaches in 2009 New laws prompt an overwhelming number of reported incidents of inappropriate data access.  |
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Sacred Heart Data Hacked Sacred Heart University became the latest school to fall victim to a computer hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 135,000 students and alumni.  |